Guggenheim Arts Education Program, Learning Through Art, Presents A Year with Children 2024

Exhibition: A Year with Children 2024
Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
Location: Thannhauser 4 Gallery
Date: April 5–June 9, 2024

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s long-standing artist-in-residence education program, Learning Through Art (LTA), presents A Year with Children 2024. On view today through June 9, 2024, the exhibition features over 300 imaginative artworks including collages, drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures by students in grades two through six from New York City public schools across the five boroughs.

In LTA classroom residencies in the 2023–24 academic year, educators and teaching artists explored themes of identity, community building, experimentation, storytelling, agency, and more. Students had the opportunity to engage an array of practices and techniques, drawing inspiration from artists recently exhibited in the Guggenheim’s Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility like David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Sandra Mujinga, Faith Ringgold as well as other influential figures like Claes Oldenburg, Marc Chagall, and Romare Bearden.

“The city of New York is fueled by creativity. At the Guggenheim we’re proud to share the works and ideas of young people from across the city with our visitors, as we have done for 53 years!”
—Cyra Levenson, Deputy Director of Education and Public Engagement

Learning Through Art and A Year with Children 2024 are generously supported by Lavazza Group and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.

Additional funding is provided by Wendy Fisher; The Keith Haring Foundation; Guggenheim Partners, LLC; Gail May Engelberg and The Engelberg Foundation; Libby and Daniel Goldring; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Anna Kovner and Seth Meisel; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; The Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.; Con Edison.

The Leadership Committee for Learning Through Art and A Year with Children 2024 is gratefully acknowledged for its support.

Libby Goldring; Anna Kovner; Elizabeth Wolfe

Gail May Engelberg; Wendy L-J. McNeil

Mary Elizabeth Catala; Bobbi and Barry Coller; Karen Frome; Maria Fuster; Tara and Joseph Gendelman; Dan Goldring; Marian Goodman Gallery; Peggy and George W. Hebard III (Geordie); Alice Lutz; Linda and Arthur Meisel; Seth Meisel; Sarah E. Needham; Brett O’Brien and Alex Pfaffenbach; The Plotch Family Charitable Fund; Pamela Fontaine Salvatore; The Schuzter Family; Vivian Serota; Dora Cortes Stoudemire; Lisa and Jeffrey Thorp; Sandy Thoyer; Bianca Turetsky; Kim Vinnakota; Steve and Kristina Weller

A Program of the Gail May Engelberg Center for Arts Education.

Learning Through Art (LTA) is the Guggenheim’s hallmark artist-in-residency program. The program sends experienced teaching artists into New York City public schools where they collaborate with classroom teachers to develop, facilitate, and integrate art projects into the school curriculum. During the twenty-week, in-school residencies, students throughout the five boroughs examine, discuss, and create works of art. Visits to the Guggenheim support the residencies, offering new insights into art and challenging students to think critically about art and ideas. At the end of the residency, selected student works are presented in the annual A Year with Children exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum.

LTA was founded in 1970 by Natalie K. Lieberman in response to the elimination of art and music programs from New York City public schools. Over the past 53 years, LTA has served over 150,000 students from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds in all five boroughs of New York City.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international constellation of museums includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. An architectural icon and “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is now among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the museum and the Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org.

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